Top 41 Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

I've always wanted... I wanted to give people joy.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

I like silence.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.